1. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite1 BSN meeting Oslo, November 2005 Country report Latvia Maija Eglite, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health Maija.Eglite@rsu.lv Oslo, November, 2005

2. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite2 Country report Latvia  No major changes in OHS system as such  New system (new requirements) for external occupational health and safety services – from January 2006  New legislation on EM fields – coming 2006  Revision of reporting and diagnosis system of occupational diseases – coming 2006  Other small changes in legal requirements

3. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite3 Country report Latvia  New strategy plan for OHS under development – Institute included in working group  Based on that – National action plan will be developed with support from PHARE transition facility project  Experts from institute included in all working groups for legislation development

4. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite4 Country report Latvia  PHARE Transition Facility project  Hopefully starting december 2005 of January 2006 – for 12 months  FIOH – partners in Activity for developing of Institute of Occupational and Environmental health to National institute of occupational health and safety  Some laboratory and IT equipment will be purchased

5. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite5 Country report Latvia  Based on the recommendations of project budgetary issues will be discussed in government and hopefully in National institute will be funded from 2007 for: Information Trainings Research and measurements Expert support to Labor Ministry and State Labor Inspection

6. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite6 Current problems  Main problems: Financing and consequently – lack resources (everybody already works 10-12 hours/day)  Fixed funding only for training (12 persons)  For national research – 15 000 Euro in 2005 (2 projects)  Partners in several other small international projects (Workplace health promotion etc.) – small amounts

7. Darba un vides veselības institūts Maija Eglite7 Current problems  No funding for information activities  Participation in expert groups – not paid  Support to PHARE project – not paid  If we got no state budget from 2007 – there will be serious problems (staff leaving etc.)